Last summer, as protesters demanding racial justice flooded Columbus streets, a meme began passing around social media, depicting the city budget as a bar graph with police spending dwarfing every other expenditure.
Interim Columbus Police chief Michael Woods is moving some of his detectives after a particularly violent weekend. The department responded to more than a dozen shootings in the last few days.
With just two days left, Columbus has seen 173 homicides in 2020. Columbus Police Deputy Chief Michael Woods says this is the most homicides the city has seen in a single year.
